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Monday, August 20, 2012

Western Union Man

I recently posted the altered book I created for the Honolulu Altered Book Group, with the fairy tale theme. Yes, I'm an honorary member! So that means each month one member will create two pages based on my theme, and I will be creating monthly pages on each of their themes. This month my given theme is "ooh la la postal," and I decided to do a page using images of my dad when he was a Postal Telegram boy. I liked his picture so much I used it three times, spread across both pages. I also used found images of telegrams and the photo of a delivery boy on his bike, dates in the 1930's, which is when my dad was delivering. Materials used: Portfolio oil crayons, Golden liquid acrylics, Souffle Pens, and stencils. I hope the recipient enjoys receiving these pages as much as I enjoyed creating them.

9 comments:

These pages look great Teri - I love seeing real photos and things like this from the past, even better that you actually had a photo fo your dad to use. I love seeing all the black and white photos of my nan and grandad when they were young - it's amazing.